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He sees his father coming out of the woods with his hands over his face, and he knows

something happened.

His father just grabs him and says she's gone.

She's gone.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the co-host of the podcast, Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

And throughout my career, research for my many audio and book projects has taken me around the world.

On Wicked Words, I sit down with the people I've met along the way, amazing writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters

who have investigated and reported on notorious true crime cases.

This is about the choices writers make, both good and bad,

and it's a deep dive into the unpublished details behind their stories.

We might have our first Pulitzer Prize winner on our show today.

Author Gilbert King digs into cases of wrongful conviction, and today we're talking about

his outstanding podcast, Bone Valley, Season 2.

Gilbert explores the 1987 murder of Michelle Schofield in Florida.

It's a story of justice, forgiveness, and the possibility of redemption.

So, this story is Lakeland, Florida, 1987.

Can you tell me what 1987 is like? I was 13. So what was 1987 like in Florida or in the nation?

I was a little bit older than that, but I went to college down there. So I used to drive through Lakeland. And I remember Lakeland is just this kind of hard rock capital of Florida. They used to, at Lakelick Civic Center, had this heavy metal

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